OBAMA FINALLY MAKES THE RIGHT MILITARY MOVE
AND IT GETS THE ATTENTION OF AHMADINEJAD
TO PUSH FOR NUCLEAR ACTIVITY MEETING
SO BACK TO THE CAT AND MOUSE GAME
TILL IRAN THINKS IT’S TIME FOR WAR
WHEN IT’S FULLY PREPARED FOR IT
Nove
mber 8, 2010
1. THE RIGHT MILITARY MOVE
Begin Excerpt from DEBKAfile Special Report
Obama piles more military pressure on Iran – conspicuously
DEBKAfile Special Report
November 7, 2010, 8:21 AM (GMT+2:00)
Before taking off for Asia Saturday, Nov. 6, President Barack Obama ordered the Pentagon not just to beef up American and NATO military pressure on Iran but to do so as conspicuously as possible, DEBKAfile’s Washington and military sources report . At a special White House security consultation last week, Obama said it was time to plant America’s military option against the Iranian nuclear threat visibly and tangibly under the noses of Iran’s political and military decision-makers. In the last few days, three aircraft carriers, four nuclear submarines and marine assault units have piled up opposite Iranian shores.
Early Sunday, the influential Senator Lindsey Graham (R. South Carolina), member of the Armed Services and Homeland Defense committees, said: “The US should consider sinking the Iranian navy, destroying its air force and delivering a decisive blow to the Revolutionary Guards.” In an address to the Halifax International Security forum, he declared “They should neuter the regime, destroy its ability to fight back and hope Iranians will take the chance to take back their government.”
Our Washington sources report that Senator Lindsey’s words were coordinated with the White House and Pentagon to underline the administration’s position.
Addressing the same forum, Israel’s Defense Minister Ehud Barak was pessimistic about diplomatic engagement halting Iran’s drive for a nuclear weapon. “Based on experience and looking at the example which they (the Iranians) are using, which is probably the North Korean example, you can easily see … the objective is to defy, deceive and deter the whole world,” he said.
On Saturday too, the Washington Post warned that tensions in the Middle East would heat up in the coming weeks. “While Americ an eyes were focused on the midterm elections,
a bitter conflict has continued between the United States and Iran for influence in
the Middle East.
Iran has put its weight behind Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s bid to stay in power and is said to have created a special task force in Baghdad to pressure Iraqi factions. Iran is said to have cut off covert subsidies to Shiite parties that refused to back Maliki.
After the election furor, President Obama must turn to this test – and discover whether Iran wants negotiations to reach a deal, or to kill time.”
Meanwhile, the French carrier Charles de Gaulle with strike force has joined the USS Abraham Lincoln and USS Harry Truman and their strike forces in the Persian Gulf.
Three days earlier, Thursday, Tehran issued an unusual communiqué noting that a fourth nuclear submarine had been stationed opposite Iran, without further information
2. THE RESULT OF THE RIGHT MILITARY MOVE
Begin Excerpt from ASSOCIATED PRESS and JPOST.COM
Iran proposes nuclear talks with West be held in Turkey
By ASSOCIATED PRESS and JPOST.COM
11/07/2010 13:04
Teheran says it has informed Turks that it’s willing to hold talks with US, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany; adds that it’s “hopeful a time and agenda will be agreed upon soon.”
TEHERAN, Iran — Iran on Sunday proposed that a new round of talks with the United States and other world powers on its nuclear program be held in Turkey.
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Iran has informed its “friends in Turkey” that it is willing to hold the talks there
Mottaki told a news conference that Iran is “hopeful a time and agenda will be agreed upon soon.”
Teheran has said it would be ready to hold talks with the six powers some time after Nov.
10. The six nations are the US, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany.
They suspect Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapons capability under the cover of a civil energy program. Iran denies any such claims.
Negotiations between Iran and the other powers foundered a year ago.
Since the break-off in talks, the United States, EU and the United Nations have stepped up financial sanctions on Teheran. The negotiations between Iran and the group of six nations stalled in October 2009 over a deal meant to ensure Iran could only use its stockpile of enriched uranium for fueling nuclear reactors and not for building bombs.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Saturday was pessimistic about the prospects of Iran ceasing its uranium enrichment program through talks with the West.
“Based on experience and looking at the paradigm which they [the Iranians] are using, which is probably the North Korean example, you can easily see… the objective is to defy, decei(ve) and deter the whole world,” Reuters reported Barak as saying at a news conference at an international security forum hosted by the German Marshall Fund.
“I would be happy to … end up finding myself wrong based on a future development, but I wonder whether this will be the case,” Barak added
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